Andrzej Jajszczyk is a full professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. He received his MSc and Ph.D. degrees from Poznan University of Technology. He spent several years as a visiting scientist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, France. He is the author or co-author of twelve books and over 300 technical papers, as well as 19 patents in the area of telecommunications networking as well as of 70 papers on research funding and higher education. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine. He served on editorial boards of various renowned journals, such as Annales des Télécommunications, Journal of Security and Telecommunications, and CIC/IEEE China Communications. He held several positions in IEEE Communications Society, such as Director of Magazines and Vice President – Technical Activities. Since 2016 he is Director of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He was involved in organization of numerous technical conferences. Andrzej Jajszczyk is President of the Krakow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Vice-President of the Kyoto-Krakow Foundation. He served as the founding Director of the National Science Centre, a Polish research funding agency. In 2017, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea. Since January 2017 he is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC).